Sunday, 18 October 2015

FILM 1388: JURASSIC PARK III

TRIVIA: According to an interview
with William H. Macy, the actor
said the film's animatronic Spinosaurus had a 1,000-horsepower motor and that
creature could turn its head at twice the force of gravity, with the tip of its
nose moving at a speed of more than 100 miles per hour.

The establishing wide shot of the
dig site was actual footage filmed in early summer 2001 of Jack Horner's excavation,
which contained several large Tyrannosaurs and some Hadrosaurs.

The Spinosaurus was the largest
animatronic ever built. It weighed 12 tons and was operated by hydraulics. This
allowed it to operate while completely submerged in water.

When the paleontologists enter the
bar for dinner with the Kirby's, you can see a Jurassic Park (1993)
pinball machine in the background.

After the Spinosaurus' attack on
the airplane, Grant asks Billy how he would classify the animal. Billy's first
inclination is to say the dinosaur is a Suchomimus or Baryonyx, due to the large
snout. This is a joke meant for many fans of the film who, when the new movie's
logo was first revealed, said the exact same thing Billy did. Many long pages
on the message boards of fan pages and the official page were dedicated to this
debate.

Mirroring the latest palaeontologic
finds that were made at the time, feathers were added onto various parts of the
Velociraptor males, most noticeably on the top of their head. More recent finds
suggest that raptors were indeed covered in feathers, a fact most members of
the general public still find hard to digest. However the type of feather they
used in the movie is incorrect: real raptors had the same kind of feathers as
modern birds, and these covered their entire body, save for the tip of their
snout.